Okay, here's the deal without getting into too much detail for reasons that may become obvious.
I was one of his students. Not one of his victims. But I do know of at least one of them for certain, he was my best friend growing up, he is dead now, but not in any way because of this, but I do know how it fucked him up in the head, and I do know why he never told anybody.
You have to undetstand how the culture is in the Ledford area, everybody knows everybody and it is a tight knit community, and the Cridlebaugh family have deep roots there dating from the late 1800's and are mostly well thought of, plus Tom Cridlebaugh was an icon of the Middle school community.
You just did not make waves, and if someone did tell they would have been called a liar, ridiculed, and ostracized and shunned, if not beaten up.
Cridlebaugh never tried anything with me other than making very vulgar and suggestive remarks, but it was well known by all the boys not to be alone with "tinkerbell" as we called him behind his back.
I hope the bastard rots in prison for the rest of his life.http://myfox8.com/2015/04/16/former-nc-middle-school-teacher-arrested-for-sex-crimes/

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If your friend was as fucked in the head as you say by this guy, no matter how he passed on, it could have indirectly been because of this prick. Choices you make are influenced by traumatic events - even if he had a disease, it could have been caused by choices made due to his feelings toward what happened.

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Holy Cow, this type of thing is an epidemic. Go towards the bottom of the page & you will see link after link of teacher on student sex crimes, pedophilia crimes, Internet child porn charges, Gary Glitter, etc. The vast majority are ones that happened in North Carolina also.

Pretty much every day now in my city's newspaper there is at least one story involving pedos....mostly guys charged with having child porn on their computer.

This can't be a new behaviour is it? I just figure these people have always been around in the same numbers, it's just that law enforcement is getting better at catching them due to the fact that the pedos have easier access to their "wank material" now with the Internet, which in turn leaves an electronic trail.

Also society is different now. Victims of sexual crimes are encouraged more to come forward these days, as back in the so-called "good 'ol days" deviant crimes like this were more often than not swept under the rug....*see Sandusky, Jerry.

Do you guys think I'm right in my observations, or do you just think there are more pedos per-capita around now than any other time in history?

It has allways been around, but in my opinion its more of a time today that there is much less social stigma in reporting abuse, and with the internet and social media something that may have been an event confined to a community or small area now gets spread quickly around a large, sometimes national area.
Regarding Cridlebaugh, this whole thing has really torn the community apart, with people choosing sides and either defending Cridlebaugh or his accuser, it is difficult to come to terms for some people that a man who was such an icon for years, was a mentor to many boys, and volunteered for so many community projects could be accusef of this, while others are not surprised at all, particularly some of us who had direct dealings with him.
As an educator, like Cridlebaugh was, you do not talk to 7th and 8th grade kids like he did, asking questions like how much do you jack off, or have you ever had a jackoff party with other boys, etc, no matter what, you just don't do it.
I want this whole thing to run its course in court and for Cridlebaugh to get his chance to defend himself, and I want to see him convicted and sent away for a long long time.

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katook wrote:
As an educator, like Cridlebaugh was, you do not talk to 7th and 8th grade kids like he did, asking questions like how much do you jack off, or have you ever had a jackoff party with other boys, etc, no matter what, you just don't do it"

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That's about the same number of women that have gone public stating Bill Cosby drugged and raped them.
That number is closer to forty now. i believe it was up to 37 a couple of months ago. They never stopped coming forward. There were even consensual girlfriends who claimed he randomly drugged them one night and molested/had sex with them while they were incapacitated.

BayouBoogie wrote:
That number is closer to forty now. i believe it was up to 37 a couple of months ago. They never stopped coming forward. There were even consensual girlfriends who claimed he randomly drugged them one night and molested/had sex with them while they were incapacitated.

Shows you the whole flavour-of-the-month thing that the news has going on, since this story hasn't been on any newscasts that I've seen for some time now.

I admittedly don't watch a lot of news, though, but when it started you couldn't get away from it.

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